Our plan was to sell Arvi after our year long odyssey. But with Covid, Arvi has come in real handy to give us the ability to travel places and yet stay physically distant from people not within our family. We have been able to travel to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula on two separate trips this summer.... Continue Reading →

Ontonagon Township Park is a very nice campground right on Lake Superior. Nice sites with electric, clean sites and a nice shower facility. From here are easy day trips into Porcupine Mountains State Park. Jen and I went to Presque Isle to look at the falls. It’s a nice hike with a lot of steps.... Continue Reading →

Camped at Indian Lake State Park just outside of Manistique, Michigan, and were treated with a beautiful sky. This park is near Kitch-iti-Kipi (The Big Spring). The spring is really interesting and worth a visit. We are at the south campground. The north campground is closed due to lack of personnel. The campground sites are... Continue Reading →

You may ask what a Holzhaufen has to do with an RV trip. We learned about the Holzhaufen when we were staying at a Harvest Hosts location: the Alaska Botanical Garden in Anchorage. The connection may be a little loose, but there it is. On display at the botanical garden was a round wood pile... Continue Reading →

The tick season is started already here in northern Michigan.   Found my first tick on me on April 17th, 2021.  It seems early. Last year (2020) we counted 100 ticks by the end of the season. It will be interesting what this year will bring. I saw in the paper today that ticks are up... Continue Reading →

Day 322: Johannesburg, MI Cloudy and cold. I spent a lot of time in review during our seclusion in Bokeelia. A “Best/Worst Of” discussion follows. Today, we are focusing on the drives that we took on our trip. Best of the Trip: DrivesIcefields Parkway from Banff to Jasper - stunning misty mountain views, glaciers and... Continue Reading →

Day 319: Lollipop Farms, Griffin, GA Cloudy, rainy, cool. Traffic was extremely light in Kentucky. Georgia and Tennessee had more traffic, not sure why. Police traffic was extremely heavy in Georgia. It’s kind of weird to drive by interesting things and keep on going. For instance, we drove by the Andersonville prison and I had... Continue Reading →

Day 317: Bokeelia, FL Sunny and warm. One last check of the property and we are on the road. Lovebugs Day 3We stopped at a rest area in Lake City, Florida. We had already been to a gas station to wash the windshield once. Tom decided it was better not washing a bug as it... Continue Reading →

Day 317: Bokeelia, FL Sunny, breezy, hot. The lovebugs are in season. We took our one last boat ride. Tom already had his fishing pole packed up, so it was just a ride to look around. We saw two small pods of dolphins! One pod was zooming in the water, fishing, I assume. The other... Continue Reading →